<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400522" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gloria in Profundis</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There has fallen on earth for a token<br>A god too great for the sky.<br>He has burst out of all things and broken<br>The bounds of eternity:<br>Into time and the terminal land<br>He has strayed like a thief or a lover,<br>For the wine of the world brims over,<br>Its splendour is spilt on the sand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who is proud when the heavens are humble,<br>Who mounts if the mountains fall,<br>If the fixed stars topple and tumble<br>And a deluge of love drowns all-<br>Who rears up his head for a crown,<br>Who holds up his will for a warrant,<br>Who strives with the starry torrent,<br>When all that is good goes down?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For in dread of such falling and failing<br>The fallen angels fell<br>Inverted in insolence, scaling<br>The hanging mountain of hell:<br>But unmeasured of plummet and rod<br>Too deep for their sight to scan, <br>Outrushing the fall of man<br>Is the height of the fall of God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Glory to God in the Lowest<br>The spout of the stars in spate-<br>Where thunderbolt thinks to be slowest<br>And the lightning fears to be late:<br>As men dive for sunken gem<br>Pursuing, we hunt and hound it,<br>The fallen star has found it<br>In the cavern of Bethlehem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gilbert+Keith+Chesterton">Gilbert Keith Chesterton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400522" data-title="Gloria in Profundis de Gilbert Keith Chesterton" data-description="There has fallen on earth for a token A god too great for the sky. He has burst out of all things and broken The bounds of eternity: Into time and the terminal land He has strayed like a thief or a lover, For the wine of the world brims over, Its ..."></div> </div> </div>

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